Stephenie Young
Professional Details
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office: | MH-223 |
| Phone: | 978-542-7258 |
| Email: | stephenie.young@salemstate.edu |
Spring Courses
| Cat. # | Term | Course # | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2436 | 05 | ENL161 | Literature II: Reading Closely |
| 2465 | 03 | ENL261 | World Literature II |
| 2466 | 04 | ENL261 | World Literature II |
| 3776 | 07 | ENL161 | Literature II: Reading Closely |
| 4565 | D1 | ENG876 | Directed Study |
| 4655 | D4 | ENG875 | Directed Study |
Professional Biography
Stephenie A. Young received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York, Binghamton. She also holds a B.A. in Art History from California State University, Long Beach. She specializes in problems of memory, trauma and nostalgia in 20th- and 21st century narratives from a transnational perspective. Her co-edited volume with Adele Parker, Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Contemporary Women's Writing, will be published by Rodopi in late 2012. Her current research project examines the intersection of aesthetics, image and witnessing as narrative production in the post-Holocaust consciousness.
Recent News:
Summer 2012: I will be co-teaching a one-week Graduate Summer Institute with Dr. Lisa Mulman entitled, "States of Emergency."
My co-edited collection with Adele Parker, Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Contemporary Women's Writing, will be published in spring 2012 by Rodopi Press in their series Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature. See: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=TEXTXET for more information about the series.
Professional Interests
20th/21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture
Problems of Memory
Testimony
War Narratives (epsecially concerning eastern Europe and Latin America)
Critical Theory
Literature of the Holocaust
Women's Transnational Writing
Human Rights
Aesthetics and the Photographic Image
Responsibilities
2012-2013 Academic Year
Graduate Coordinator of English (interim)
Graduate Education Council Committee Member
Faculty Committee for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center/M.A. Ceritificate Program
English Department: Literature Sequence Committee; Film Studies Minor Committee; Co-Organizer, Teaching Roundtable
Selected Publications
Edited Collection. Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Contemporary Women's Writing. (Forthcoming, Rodopi Press, 2012).
“Transnationalism and a Post-Yugoslav Writer,” in Transnationalism and Resistance: Experience and Experiment in Contemporary Women's Writing. New York: Rodopi Press.(Forthcoming, 2012)
"Yugonostalgia and the Post-National Narrative." In The New Order of War. (New York: Rodopi Press, 2010).
Selected Presentations
"In Absentia: Yugoslavia and the Changing Face of Portraiture." American Comparative Literature Association. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. March 2012.
Workshop on Kestenberg Archives. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Israel. March 2012.
"Testimony and Nostalgia in Georges Perec's W, or The Memory of Childhood." Symposium. Holocaust Testimonies II. College of Western Galilee, Akko, Israel. March 2012.
“Loss and Translation:Nostalgia and Georges Perec’s W, or the Memory of Childhood.” Symposium.“ Holocaust Writing and Translation.” University of London. England. March 2011.
Personal Interests
Reading, swimming, hiking, traveling
See: http://www.pbase.com/zlate for information about my travels.
